I am having an issue in my application I don't know how to handle.

It's a web application. On each request before the response is sent security is checked to ensure the user is authorized to see the page. The User class uses lazy initialization on its collections, which are a collection of Groups the user belongs to and a collection of Pages the user can see that are not covered by their Group policies.

The issue I am having only happens if the user goes into the Admin area and attempts to edit themselves. Their user object is now persisted in the session. When the security runs it tries to persist the User object from the HttpSession and I get the exception referenced in the subject line. Even if I do a session.clear() beforehand, I get a "dirty collection reference" error on some actions.

Thanks,
Karl

One other thing I tried was doing a session.contains() before persisting the User object in the security. This seemed liked it should work according to the API but it didn't. It would always return false.

Thanks,
Karl

Does anyone know of another Hibernate Forum, one where I can expect some feedback on my questions. 75% of my questions here don't even get a response.

Thanks,
Karl

well - you don't ask questions that is very answerable....folllow the posting rules (by showing the failing code etc.) and you will get better feedback....

I tend to say the above line 5-10 times every day - but i don't do it on every questions since then i would do it all day ....and that i don't have time for ;)

Consider commercial support.

I've posted questions with code and mappings before and still gotten no response so that doesn't really help does it.

Karl

Complaining also doesn't help. Keep in mind that its your responsibility to fix your code, not ours. This is a free forum. If you need personal attention, buy commercial support.